File talk:Flag-map of Mandatory Palestine.svg

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Rename[edit]

This is clearly map of Mandatory Palestine (under British Mandate), which can also be seen by the flag. The title "historic Palestine" is therefore merely non-precise, and perhaps even misleading, as there are different definitions to what is "historic Palestine". Propose to rename to "Flag-map of Mandatory Palestine.svg" per section 3 of file rename conventions.Greyshark09 (talk) 08:52, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you had actually wanted to start a discussion then you would have waited a reasonable period for a reply, instead of acting almost immediately -- the five minutes between "08:52, 3 October 2014" and "08:57, 3 October 2014" didn't exactly leave much time for a response or meaningful discussion! AnonMoos (talk) 15:09, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Do you mean between the nomination to the tagging of the page? I thought it is up to an uninvolved admin to check the proposal period, prior to implementing.Greyshark09 (talk) 14:21, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dude, tagging the file as you did is NOT a "proposal"[sic] -- it's in fact a request for action. Someone with filemover privileges (not necessarily an "admin") may turn down the request (usually for technical reasons), but it's really not intended to be any kind of request for discussion... AnonMoos (talk) 23:50, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong flag[edit]

Please review following discussions, there was no official flag to Mandatory Palestine. The British used the Union Jack:

The current flag (that we are using in Wikipidia) is the Ensign flag, the flag had been use only for maritime purposes.

According to article Flag of Mandatory Palestine quote: "During the British Mandate over Palestine between 1920 and 1948, the de facto flag was the Union Jack or Union Flag of the United Kingdom, but several localised flags existed for Mandate government departments and government officials. The only Palestine-specific flag not restricted to official government use was the Palestine ensign (red with the Union Flag in the canton, and a white circle on the fly with the mandate's name inside it), which was flown by ships registered in the British Mandate territory from 1927 to 1948. This flag had an extremely limited use on land and was not embraced by either the Arabs or the Jews of the Palestine mandate territory".

We need to update this image. Sokuya (talk) 07:52, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I originally wrote basically all the text you've quoted above, but I don't see any decisive inconsistency between it and the current appearance of this image. The map outline with just a fragment of the Union Jack and nothing else would have different meaning. The Palestine Mandate ensign had a very restricted use, but it's still "the only Palestine-specific flag not restricted to official government use", and is used that way in several contexts on English Wikipedia, at least. (It wouldn't be appropriate to use it in an infobox at the top of en:Mandatory Palestine (which would give a misleading impression that it was the official general-purpose flag of the Mandate), but it's useful as a quick identification device in some other less formal contexts...) AnonMoos (talk) 04:43, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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